made me want to peel my eyeballs.
Had to watch it in film history and when it started i thought something was goood was going to happen but then it just lost it, and went out of control! So many irrlenvent scenes and lack of plot!
http://www.justgiving.com/ashleighmustarde please look at this page.
I went to a film club meeting for the first time and this was being aired. I like films with a message but utter senselessness for a couple hours is not good cinema. I left shaking my head at the utter pretentiousness of the director and even more so at the audience, who praised it as a cinematic masterpiece.
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"So fair, yet so cold"
People will praise it just because it has Godard's name on it and their Film Professor told them it was great. Anyone that can defend this film without sounding like a pompous ass has my respect.
shareWhat's pretentious about it, or about Godard's intentions? I actually find it really funny and relevant.
Godard is anything but pretentious. His work has revolved around one thing.. to decompose so that it alienates the viewer from the casual contrivances of a narrative.. he doesn't want us to feel, he wants us to know (he admits this in intertitles) what we're left with is the form(admiration for it is subjective, you are either bothered by it or immersed)and the episodic content. I think it's a matter of what you open yourself into, pretense was also the word I was left with after seeing Weekend, by that time it was my fifth Godard film and Vivre sa Vie was the only one I considered to be relevant (it was also this time that I discover Bergman, a film-maker that has shaped my life more than anyone else) After about a year I felt this sudden urge to re-watch everything from him again, I started with Breathless.. and it quickly became one of the most rewarding experiences of my life, then Le Petit Soldat and this one and I've grown to love him. He has always been misunderstood as a film-maker (his ideals, motives and his methods)I still can't bring myself to seeing Masculin Feminin again. There are thousands of essays and scholarly articles about Godard on the internet, hundreds on Weekend's threads alone, read more about him and the next time you see any of his film again, strip yourself of all expectations believe me you'll love it this time.
shareSo many irrlenvent scenes and lack of plot
what scene is a bergman parody?
the most shocking thing for me was the real animal killings.
The erotic monologue is a parody of a scene from "Persona".
shareinteresting. i dont remember david sterritt making any reference to it in the commentary.
in what way is it a parody - the way it's fimed and/or the dialog?
Have you seen "Persona"? Watch Bibi Andersson's monologue about her sexual experience, then rewatch the scene where Mireille Darc recounts a group-sex episode. That is the parody.
shareAgree. Absolutely hated this artsy-fartsy garbage.
shareGood post Manatee! Absolutely agreed. I really enjoyed this as well. To take the immense effort of building and directing an entire traffic jam, capturing it in one long shot and than cutting it in between just to show the title of film, is pure anarchistic film making fun.
What's arrogant, dumb, and most of all, really pretentious, is bad mouthing a film a movie you didn't understand...but your probably knew that already.
I liked the first haf but then it a pretty weak end. Not only was there a reference to Bergman but a very clear hint towards Sjöström (calling for Bergling, that is), among others.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju67DqaRE7k
Stiller, not Sjoestroem.
shareStiller, of course. I mixed them up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ju67DqaRE7k
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Aww, that's so sad. :( I personally loved it when I studied it in a film and visual culture course, but I was in the vast minority (and we had like 150 people in the course), and I am a pompous film ass, so I won't try to justify why I liked it. Lol.
When it was being screened for the course, there was actually a guy who stood up, swung on his bag, stomped as noisily out of the room and slammed the door during the 8-minute traffic jam shot. So yeah, I can understand people really hating it, haha.
Cortázar's poetry, it's the deal, he wrote this story! Read his poetry books!!!!!!!!!!!!
Like this:
BLUE FUNK
You see the Southern Cross,
You breathe the summer with its smell of peaches,
And you walk at night
My silent little ghost
Through that Buenos Aires
Always through that same Buenos Aires
When it was being screened for the course, there was actually a guy who stood up, swung on his bag, stomped as noisily out of the room and slammed the door during the 8-minute traffic jam shot. So yeah, I can understand people really hating it, haha.
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